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Get path from any text

Created·2023-01-31 14:38
Updated·2023-07-23 20:17
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)
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Get path (windows style) from any type of text (error message, e-mail corps ...), quoted or not. THIS IS THE SINGLE LINE VERSION ! If you want understand how it work or edit it, go https://regex101.com/r/7o2fyy Relative path are not supported The goal is to catch what "Look like" a path. See the limitations UNC path and prefix path like //./], [//?/] or [//./UNC/] are allowed some url path like [file:///C:/] or [file://] are allowed Catch path quoted with ["] and [']. But these quotes are include with the catch Quoted path is not concerned by limitations Limitations : (only unquoted path) [dot] and [space] is allowed, but not in a row [dot+space] or [space+dot at end of file name isn't catched INSIDE A NAME FILE (or last directory if it is a path to a directory) : [comma] is not supported (it stop the catch) after a first [dot], any [space] stop the catch after a [space], catch is stoped if next character is not a [letter], [digit] or [-] so, double [space] stop the catch Compatibility compatible PCRE, PCRE2 AutoHotkey : don't forget to escape "%" in "`%" /!\ Powershell and .Net /!\\ : this regex need some modification to be interpreted by powershell. You have to replace each (?&CapturGroupName) by \k. Use this powershell code to do this replacement : ` $powershellRegex = @' [Put here the regex to replace (?&CapturGroupName) with \k] '@ -replace '\(\?&(\w+)\)', '\k' ` This example code must return : [Put here the regex to replace \k with \k]
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Regular Expression
Created·2016-07-10 22:31
Flavor·PCRE (Legacy)

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^(\*(\/\d+)?|([0-5]?\d)(-([0-5]?\d)(\/\d+)?)?(,([0-5]?\d)(-([0-5]?\d)(\/\d+)?)?)*)\s(\*(\/\d+)?|([01]?\d|2[0-3])(-([01]?\d|2[0-3])(\/\d+)?)?(,([01]?\d|2[0-3])(-([01]?\d|2[0-3])(\/\d+)?)?)*)\s(\*(\/\d+)?|(0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])(-(0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])(\/\d+)?)?(,(0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])(-(0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])(\/\d+)?)?)*)\s(\*(\/\d+)?|([1-9]|1[012])(-([1-9]|1[012])(\/\d+)?)?(,([1-9]|1[012])(-([1-9]|1[012])(\/\d+)?)?)*|jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec)\s(\*(\/\d+)?|([0-7])(-([0-7])(\/\d+)?)?(,([0-7])(-([0-7])(\/\d+)?)?)*|mon|tue|wed|thu|fri|sat|sun)\s(.*)$
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          • app.php 59 23 31 12 5 app.php 59 23 31 dec fri app.php 1,2,3,5,20-25,30-35,59 23 31 12 * app.php */15 */6 1,15,31 * 1-5 app.php
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